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...film’s characters for help. Tension escalates to a fever pitch as Sara questions the identity of her father while the school trip looms nearer. The past is a context, rather than a subject, for the film: Zbanic does not resort to graphic violence in order to hint at the atrocities of the war. We see it reflected in the women’s lined faces and the men’s gruffness. We hear about it in songs sung in the school bus and learnt at home—the English title of the film...
Later in a pub, Izabela Chudzicka, the former bank clerk, talks about the fund raiser, which she's helped to organize in the past. In an accent betraying a hint of an Irish brogue, she says the Poles and the Irish have a lot in common. "We socialize in the same way. We know how to talk to each other. We understand each other's sense of humor. It's great...
...young Andre’s improvisational virtuosity. He learned how to shoot. He learned how to pass. He built his game on a foundation of ball-handling tricks, like the move that Harvard teammate Cheyoon Im calls “the fisherman’s touch” (hint: imagine reeling in a defender, then blowing...
...fact, Vietnam's clash of Buddhist leaders reflects the country's new religious reality in which ordinary worshipers are enjoying unprecedented freedom. Still, even a hint of political activism is snuffed out. "As long as you play by the rules and are loyal to the regime, they'll leave you alone," says Carl Thayer, a professor and Vietnam expert at Australia's Defence Academy. And if religious leaders focus on fighting each other, the regime must be even more pleased...
...Rocky Mountain football--the Denver Broncos--lost defensive back Darrent Williams early and violently on New Year's Day when he was gunned down driving along a city street hours after his underachieving team was eliminated from the National Football League playoffs. No one has been arrested, but police hint that the slaying may be gang related, spotlighting a problem that has been at a slow boil for years. Then, on Feb. 24, another Broncos player, Damien Nash, collapsed and died. More grisly but no less shocking was the death that same day of a Denver Zoo employee, Ashlee Pfaff...